ic3csi Culture Market
About the Culture Market
The ic3csi Culture Market is a racialised culture bazaar. It is not just for buying and selling objects, it is for sharing culture, memory, and community knowledge.
Every item is clearly marked with three codes:
- Race code (IC code, for example: IC3)
- Ethnicity code (for example: Black Caribbean, Turkish, Chinese)
- Sub-Branch code (a detailed community code)
No codes, no listing. Codes are always visible on the item view and in search results so the racialised pattern of culture and trade can be made visible.
Using the Culture Market
The Culture Market now runs on a simple coded items store with a public message board under each item. There are no personal user accounts or logins. The focus is on coded culture, not profiles.
Search by community identity
The Culture Market listings allow you to search not only for items, but for the coded communities behind them.
- Search by Race – for example: show IC3 Black items.
- Search by Ethnicity – for example: show Turkish, Yoruba, or Chinese community items.
- Search by Sub-Branch – for example: a specific village, line, or coded branch.
A Turkish person can look for things that only the Turkish community would recognise. A Dschang or Bamileke person can look for signs of their own people and their symbols.
Each item can also say who it is for. For example, an IC5 Chinese item might be “for IC3 Black community”, or an IC3 Black item might be “for IC3 and IC6 youth”.
Culture value examples
This Culture Market is for things that carry cultural value, such as:
- Traditional food and ingredients from home.
- Clothing, jewellery, and textiles with cultural meaning.
- Religious and spiritual items, rituals, and tools.
- Music, art, dance, games, and stories from your community.
- Books, teaching, language support, and community know-how.
Items can include links to pictures and videos to show how these things look and how they are used in their original culture.
Why the Culture Market matters
The Culture Market helps each community find its own hidden treasures and see who is reaching out to them with cultural value. It is designed to make race, ethnicity, and trade visible instead of hidden.
For ic3csi, the Culture Market is also an investigation space. It creates a racialised map of culture and trade that can be used to support reparatory justice work and to challenge anti-Black racism in economic life.